Israeli high-tech entrepreneur Mati Kochavi has set up an Instagram account for the real life figure of Eva Heymann, a 13-year-old Hungarian girl. The account interprets the diary she started in 1944, using selfies,…
In honour of International Migrants Day, activists engaged in a bit of culture jamming, posting instructions on how to stop a deportation where Tube adverts market products to those on their way to Heathrow. This is…
Campaign is a UK based global business magazine that covers media, advertising and commercial creativity. Aside from its monthly prints and an annual report based on the performances of large advertising companies, it…
Documentary filmmakers have the opportunity to serve a witnessing function. Through their media they can present to a transnational audience both the visual conditions of war and a personalised narrative of the people…
The Abounaddara Collective is a group that consists of several anonymous filmmakers that seek to show images of Syria that are not seen in mainstream media. The Abounaddara Collective is useful for filmmakers that seek…
Leshu Torchin and Dina Iordanova’s book Film Festivals and Activism (St Andrews Film Studies, 2012) is an excellent example to show how forms of exhibition and distribution are essential to the nature of activist…
Hope for Paws, established in 2008, is a Los-Angeles-based non-profit organization that rescues stray animals and seeks to “raise awareness for abandoned animals” through uploading animal rescuing videos on YouTube and…
An organization that would be useful to someone seeking to use film for activism would be the Crested Butte Film Festival, which takes place in Colorado on the 26th through the 29th of September, 2019. Over the course…
Radi-Aid is a call to action interested in how national development is communicated and questioning how western media, aid organisations, and academia often portray developing countries in a way lacking nuance and only…
Mov(i)e Activism is a ‘nomadic’ international documentary film festival which aims at showcasing different forms of socio-political activism through film. As a ‘nomadic’ international film festival Mov(i)e Activism…